Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

- Malayan Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Johnson, Samuel

A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Seneca

10.

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.

Japanese Proverb

11.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Japanese Proverb

12.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

13.

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Proverb

14.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Chinese Proverb

15.

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

16.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

17.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

18.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

19.

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Stevens, Wallace

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Baker, Nicholson

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Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

Morely, John

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

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A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

31.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Sontag, Susan

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Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Belgian Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

35.

Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

Hardy, Thomas

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.